The Nigerian President Gooduck Jonathan seeking a 2015 re-election
mentioned yesterday that the discussion on public corruption in Nigeria is
exaggerated. It is as if the whole news and information about the 2015 election
has come to rest between corruption and the place of Nigeria in world of terrorism.
Perhaps there are other issues at stake in Nigeria, especially the principal
issue of security which the military in the time past has tried prodding the
nation on why they will militarily take over Nigeria.
Most perhaps the new
concerns about the kidnapped American woman in Lagos with the kidnapper asking
for $300, 000.00 ransom has given Nigerian reasons to investigate all
allegation materials concerning kidnapping.
It is March 4th 2015, the elections will soon arrive and we
are at the middle of nowhere as far Nigeria is concerned. But perhaps the
President is advised to abandon his current posture on security and respond to
the growing political concerns.
(I)
First and foremost, there is the issue of
the woman captured in Lagos which can be grouped as part of the Security issue
in Nigeria, making it seem that Nigeria is argued as relatively unsafe country
to go. It is the role of Lagos State Governor to bring this new issue of kidnap
in Lagos to an end, for gradually some of the assumptions on these cases are
growing with these persons of interest and they are also growing ruthless and
in disgust of what these kidnaps and Islamic insurgency means.
(II)
(2) The Second issue which the Country and
the President need to look into is the source of corruption in Nigeria and the
allegation material that comes with it. These means that the rest of the issue
concerning the resources allocation of Nigeria and to some extent on ECA, it’s
an issue that places the future prospects and career of Nigerian Sovereign
Wealth Investment Fund and increase of Nigerian Banks in US, without which
Nigeria will never channel the issue of money and money laundering.
With
these Banks and financial institutions in United States, Nigeria and perhaps
other West Africans can check its own vises and excesses in the country and in
dealing with the temptations of physical cash.
(I)
Beginning with the last, we may cite that the crux of
Nigerian problems with crude oil is in the persons and images of individual
Nigerians. A newly published report by GABRICH Gabrich Global suggest several things to several people, especially
the aspect of ringing in a close investigation into Nigerian Crude oil sector.
It will require in the long run, a careful estimate of all the actions taken by
especially among the indigenous people of River State and Bayelsa. The author, GABRICH,
opened up with emphasis on ‘Danjuma’s Sapetro’ which is said to have “divested
of its investment in Akpo condensate for $1billion dollars.”, signifying that
so much bride goes into the process that it was waste of time trying to
investigate. In a similar line he mentioned, that a “birthday gift or child naming
gift from an oil block owner to a government official could be as paltry as
$2million dollars, and if the official’s father died, the condolence gift could
reach mere $3 million dollars.”
It is reasonable
to conclude that part of the reasons why the author made such expositions on
Nigerian Crude oil facilities is to mitigate on the Northern Nigerian influence
and how well to deal with them. We can suggest that while there is no way of
justifying some of the transactions in this place and how well to promote
private businesses at the expense of general and public interest, it is
meeting, the account by GABRICH Gabrich, continues that “OPL 246 was awarded to
SAPETRO, a company owned by General Theophilus Danjuma, by Sanni Abacha in
1998. Akpo condensate exports about 300,000 barrels of crude daily. NOML 112
and OML 117 were awarded to AMNI International Petroleum Development Company
owned by Colonel Sanni Bello in 1999. Sanni Bello is an inlaw to Abdulsalami
Abubakar, former Head of State of Nigeria. OML 115, OLDWOK Field and EBOK field
was awarded to Alhaji Mohammed Indimi from Niger State. Indimi is an inlaw to
former Military President Ibrahim Babangida.”
(Ib)
More than once, Danjuma has been one of the proponents of
the destruction of these vessels; where as his company involved in piping
Nigerian oil is drilled deep in the offshore recess is under floodlight of
investigation, it is how his images and those of others like him loom large in
the whole process. Above all the reviews on removing the Crude Oil subsidy has
also ended and if there are additional creative accounts and processes, it is
with the ECA accounts and the debts to Nigerian Federal government.
If Danjuma has a muscle left anywhere in him and in the
world, he would have found a way to discourage Exxon-Mobile from backing the
partitioning of the Oil Rich Peninsula at the Bight of Biafra. Exxon, the
French side of the business, has enormous interest in drilling oil in Cameron
as well being position to do business in what is Nigeria, but the problems of
the drilling rigs in South East and South-South Nigeria has led many of these
Oil Champions into offshore Nigerian Oil some of miss accounting and numbers. These
are issue which for people in people is not about the Nation but on how to place
this interest in these business.
Apparently Theophilus Danjuma is not that powerful in the
Crude oil business and it is only the exchange rate in Nigeria that gives the
impression that a billion dollars for Akpo is any more lucrative as any meaning
beyond the process of business available. If the new ventures of regional
reserve banking or requisition for exchange rate in Naira in terms of
redenomination is given it’s due comparative and functional measures, we may
suggest that the seeming obvious problems of Nigerian corruption is the issue
of quantity of money, a reflection of inflation and inflationary pressure than
nearly anything.
II
The second and more demanding issue of Nigerian Presidency
is how he plans to tackle the issue of violence and growing concerns of
Boko-Haram that is clearly funded and international with reasons that are
enormously hard to grasp. The attempt of Nigeria to get several war ships for a
war against these terrorist are not issue that need to be taken likely, these
are articles of National Security requiring the best placed hands in the
business to make a reality.
We have noticed that the presence of police in Nigeria is
too thin around the country but may be considered sufficient given the issue of
national security and interest – unless the subject of investigations is a high
priority. Setting an example along the Nigerian-Cameroun boundaries which for
decades has been an oversight area for drug smuggling and for heroine
propagation, we may the argument of replacing current technology in these areas
from the bandwidth of those in power.
From this problem of terrorism in the last decade it is
important that we understand that the boundaries in Nigeria, between Cameroon
and Nigeria, Nigeria and Chad, between Nigeria and Benin and Nigeria with Nigeria,
would receive adequate protection and coverage.
In essence, there are several villages in Nigeria and in
parts of Gongola and Adamawa that are so small that they comprise a few
hundreds of family members, some of them victims of ancient separation from other
communities based on the advancement of Islam. The question is how these
terrorist get the equipment to this hard to reach areas of Gongola which shares
boundaries with Cameroon. The other question is the issue of journalism, why
and how these foreign news agencies are among first to report these incidents.
If Nigeria should reduce and end the official presence of
either French News agencies and humanitarians in these areas, or enforce some
of the hard and fastened rule on providing the coverage materials in side
Nigeria and its boundaries for these international news agencies, or sticking
the old fashioned way that you are required to report to us or so prescribed
information agency of a new development before you direct it to the public,
perhaps the issue of the Nigerians in the Northern region who were killed and
burned alive in the Bauchi village by forces loyal to Boko-Haram may been
avoided. What these people want more than anything is publicity. Publicity
feeds the need for any form of dimension.
The journalism concerning this Niger-Delta is seriously
spurious, full of conceivable scenario which are exacerbated by pictures of
Hooliganism. These pictures burrow deep into the mind of outsiders suggesting a
mass of social unrest in whole Nigeria with reflective mutiny of displaced
hooligans desperate to harm White people.
Concerning the role of Journalist and International
organization, we lack the Kaleidoscope of the whole agrarian area of the so
called Niger-Delta, but this area is large and elaborate enough to mute the
issue of rebellious few, rather it is getting muted by these groups through the
lens of the journalist who are adding fiction to fact. We cannot pretend that
such unrest in the area does not exist, that it exist means that it has a
degree of accuracy, to the degree that it now exist in the eyes of the world as
only a keel from the Journalist (reportage) who are widening the angel of the
story.
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